Frank Arkell
Frank Arkell | |
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| Member of the New South Wales Parliament for Wollongong | |
| In office 24 March 1984 – 3 May 1991 | |
| Preceded by | Eric Ramsay |
| Succeeded by | Gerry Sullivan |
| 8th Lord Mayor of Wollongong | |
| In office 27 September 1974 – September 1991 | |
| Preceded by | John Parker |
| Succeeded by | David Campbell |
| Alderman of the Wollongong City Council | |
| In office 4 December 1965 – September 1991 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 September 1935 Port Kembla, New South Wales, Australia |
| Died | 26 June 1998 (aged 62) Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia |
| Alma mater | Edmund Rice College |
Francis Neville (Frank) Arkell (13 September 1935 – 26 June 1998) was an Australian politician. Arkell was a long-serving Lord Mayor of Wollongong and an independent member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing Wollongong. In 1998, at the age of 62, Arkell was violently murdered in his home by Mark Valera. At the time of his death, he was under police investigation for child sex offences. Continued investigation largely cleared Arkell of wrongdoing, with police concluding that a tape that supposedly recorded Arkell making sexual advances to a teenager had in fact been faked by former Wollongong mayor and pedophile Tony Bevan as blackmail. Arkell was a Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy, according to his biography on the Parliament of NSW site.